"The ___ lama, he's a priest" (Nash)
The crossword clue ""The ___ lama, he's a priest" (Nash)" is answered by ONEL, a 4-letter entry. Used 10 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1988. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
ONEL
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ONEL answer page.
Used 10 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1988. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ONEL
Every other clue in this collection answered by ONEL, most used first.
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- Scott Turow memoir - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
- Scott Turow's first book - used 17 times, most recently in 2019
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- Law school newbie - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
- Scott Turow title - used 14 times, most recently in 2017
- Scott Turow novel - used 13 times, most recently in 2014
- Scott Turow work - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Turow book - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- 1977 Scott Turow book - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Turow memoir - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
- Like Ogden Nash's lama - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
- "The __ lama, ..." - used 6 times, most recently in 2009
- "The __ lama, he's a priest" - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
- Turow book set at Harvard - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
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